A ‘Troublemaker’ Looks Back on an Era of Hope and Upheaval A ‘Troublemaker’ Looks Back on an Era of Hope and Upheaval
For half a century, Bill Zimmerman has labored for progressive causes as an organizer and political consultant. In a new memoir, he looks back on his career with an unwavering comm...
Aug 15, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Danny Goldberg
HBO’s Gloria Steinem Doc Glosses over Race, and Fails to Assess the Second Wave’s Legacy HBO’s Gloria Steinem Doc Glosses over Race, and Fails to Assess the Second Wave’s Legacy
Gloria Steinem and Second Wave feminism deserve a far more sophisticated and critical treatment.
Aug 12, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Dana Goldstein
Crazy, Stupid, Republicans Crazy, Stupid, Republicans
Eric has never written for US News, and he is frustrated with T-Mobile.
Aug 12, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman
Cut, Cap and Balance Cut, Cap and Balance
(A Republican version of “Brush Up Your Shakespeare,” from Kiss Me, Kate) Cut, cap and balance. Just turn off the tap. Cut, cap and balance. Shut that purse up with a snap. Let’s cut wasteful programs in bunches— Like research and poor kids’ school lunches. All life is not really a fed affair, So let’s take a scalpel to Medicare. ’Cause if rich people pay less in taxes We’ll still whip that Evil old Axis. All citizens will be in clover If we just heed the teaching of Grover. Cut, cap and balance. Balance, cut and cap.
Aug 10, 2011 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Inhuman Bondage: On Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights Inhuman Bondage: On Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Robin Blackburn's The American Crucible treats modern slavery as an international institution with national histories.
Aug 10, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Eric Foner
Shelf Life Shelf Life
On Reza Aslan’s Tablet and Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East.
Aug 10, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Elias Muhanna
Sentimentality or Honesty? On Charles Taylor Sentimentality or Honesty? On Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor is a sadly endangered type: the philosopher-statesman.
Aug 10, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Mark Oppenheimer
Break That Wall Break That Wall
Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz’s The Interrupters; Raul Ruiz’s Mysteries of Lisbon; Jon Favreu’s Cowboys and Aliens; David Yates’s Harry Potter and the Deat...
Aug 10, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Top Ten Songs About Nuclear War Top Ten Songs About Nuclear War
Fear of nuclear apocalypse has provided serious creative juice for songwriters and musicians of all genres.
Aug 5, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Peter Rothberg
The Democratic Paintbrush of Lucian Freud The Democratic Paintbrush of Lucian Freud
Freud made the case through his art that no body type inherently possesses more capacity to compel than another.
Aug 1, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Margaret Spillane